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Module 3-Issues On Human Development

This learning module discusses three issues in human development: nature vs nurture, continuity vs discontinuity, and stability vs change. It explores debates around these issues such as the influence of biological inheritance versus environment on traits like gender differences in math ability. The module emphasizes that development involves interactions between both nature and nurture, continuity and discontinuity, and stability and change. It concludes that both genes and environment together produce a person's traits and abilities, with influences changing throughout the lifespan based on environmental conditions. Exercises ask students to evaluate statements about the issues and discuss implications of parents providing both heredity and environment to a child's development.

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Module 3-Issues On Human Development

This learning module discusses three issues in human development: nature vs nurture, continuity vs discontinuity, and stability vs change. It explores debates around these issues such as the influence of biological inheritance versus environment on traits like gender differences in math ability. The module emphasizes that development involves interactions between both nature and nurture, continuity and discontinuity, and stability and change. It concludes that both genes and environment together produce a person's traits and abilities, with influences changing throughout the lifespan based on environmental conditions. Exercises ask students to evaluate statements about the issues and discuss implications of parents providing both heredity and environment to a child's development.

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Learning Module No.

Subject : Prof Ed 1 - Child and Adolescent Learners Development


Module Title : Issues on Human Development
Learning Outcomes : 1. Acquire a deep understanding on the development of a human being.
2. Take an informed stand/position on the three issues on human development.
Reference : Corpuz, B., et al . 2015. Child and Adolescent Learners Development

CONCEPTS :

Three Issues on Human Development:


1. Nature vs. Nurture - Nature refers to an individual’s biological inheritance or the genes
inherited from the parents. Nurture refers to environmental experiences of the individual.
2. Continuity vs. Discontinuity - Does development involve gradual, cumulative change
(continuity) or distinct changes ( discontinuity ) . To make it more concrete, “ Is our
development like that of a seedling gradually growing into an acacia tree ? Or is it more like
that of a caterpillar becoming a butterfly ?
3. Stability vs. Change - Is development best describes as involving stability or change ? Are
we what our first experiences have made of us , or do we develop into someone different
from who we are at an earlier point in development ?

The issues presented can be translated into questions that have sparked animated debates among
developmentalists:
1. Are girls likely to do well in Math because of their “ feminine “ nature or because of society’
masculine bias ?
2. How extensively can an elderly be trained to reason more effectively ? How much , if at all,
does
Our memory decline in old age ? Can techniques be used to prevent or reduce the decline ?
3. Can children who experienced a world of poverty , neglect by parents, and poor schooling in
childhood , can enriched experiences in adolescence remove the “deficits “ that they
encountered earlier in their development ?
Development is not all nature nor all nurture, not all continuity nor discontinuity, and not all stability
nor all change. Both nature and nurture, continuity and discontinuity, stability and change characterize
our life-span development. The key to development is the interaction of nature and nurture.
To summarize, both genes and environment are necessary for a person even to exist. Without
genes, there is no person; without environment , there is no person. Heredity and environment operate
together, or cooperate and interact, to produce a person’s intelligence, temperament, height, weight…
ability, etc.

The relative contributions of heredity and environment are not additive , so we can’t say that 50% is a
contribution and 50% environment. Neither is it correct to say that full genetic expression happen once,
around conception once , after which we take our genetic legacy into the world to see how far it gets
us. Genes produce proteins throughout the life-span, in many different environments. Or, they don’t
produce these proteins , depending on how harsh or nourishing those environments are.

EXERCISES :
Instruction: A. Put a check ( / ) before the correct statement and mark X for the wrong one. If
you Mark a statement X, explain why.

______ 1. Heredity exerts a greater influence on human development than


environment.
______ 2. What has been experienced in the earlier stages of development can no
longer be changed.
______ 3. From the perspective of life-span developmental theorists , later
experiences are the key determinants of a person’s development.
B – Complete the sentence.
1. With regard to the nature-nurture, continuity-discontinuity, and change –
stability
Controversies, the wiser stand is
_____________________________________.

C - Discuss the implications of this statement.


“ The frightening part about heredity and environment is that, we, parents,
provide both.”

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